12-06-09—[Regarding Afghanistan] some circles of hell cannot be squared. ... Obama’s failure illuminated even his great powers of reason. The state dinner crashers delineated those limits too. This was the second time in a month—after the infinitely more alarming bloodbath at Fort Hood—that a supposedly impregnable bastion of post-9/11 American security was easily breached. ... It was a symbolic indication ... of how unbridled irrationality harnessed to sheer will, ... can penetrate even our most secure fortifications. Both incidents stand as a haunting reproach to the elegant powers of logic with which Obama tried to sell his exquisitely calibrated plan to vanquish Al Qaeda and its mad brethren.—Frank Rich, NYT WK 10.
—“If I owned hell and Texas, I would rent out Texas and live in hell.”—Sheridan. NYTMg30
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